{"id":49006,"date":"2024-09-15T08:04:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T08:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/npfl-rivers-united-deserved-maximum-points-against-heartland-finidi\/"},"modified":"2024-09-15T08:04:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T08:04:39","slug":"npfl-rivers-united-deserved-maximum-points-against-heartland-finidi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/npfl-rivers-united-deserved-maximum-points-against-heartland-finidi\/","title":{"rendered":"NPFL: Rivers United deserved maximum points against Heartland \u2013 Finidi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rivers United head coach, Finidi George says his side deserved maximum points from Saturday\u2019s home win against Heartland, DAILY POST reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Port Harcourt side defeated the visitors 3-1 at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>It was Rivers United\u2019s first victory of the season, while Heartland, who are under the tutelage of former Super Eagles winger, Emmanuel Amuneke remain winless.<\/p>\n<p>Kabir Abdullahi bagged a brace for Rivers United, while new signing Taofeek Otaniyi was also on target.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Molokwu scored Heartland\u2019s only goal of the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a good game, we started with a high tempo and after that goal the tempo dropped and Heartland) started playing, unfortunately, they got that goal and we were furious about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to ginger the boys, especially in the second half,\u201d Finidi said during his interaction with the media after the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second half was for us; they couldn\u2019t do much apart from one or two breaks they had; we controlled the game, and overall, we deserved to win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team is practically new, so we have been working with the players tactically and technically, and they are responding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NPFL: Rivers United deserved maximum points against Heartland \u2013 Finidi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers United head coach, Finidi George says his side deserved maximum points from Saturday\u2019s home win against Heartland, DAILY POST&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1151,682,15,683,9514,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finidi","category-heartland","category-news","category-npfl","category-river","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}